Ah, another beautiful evening. I am able to sit on my back porch, feel this wonderful breeze and listen to the birds. How lucky am I? After a three year break from blogging I have decided to begin again. I am starting a completely new blog. My other blog no longer fits who I am. Thus the name, "Different season, different colors." We are all in a different season in life. Whether we are just starting out and learning to experience life or new parents with small children. We could be at the end of our lives and living life through memories and pictures, watching others' begin their Spring. I am somewhere between summer and fall!! My children are not so small anymore, 10 3/4 and 16. Yikes! I blinked...I am not needed nearly as much, yet I am needed more than ever. When a mother has a newborn, everyone has an opinion or advice. I was smart enough to listen to some of it and I took heed. The advice was this: your children will be grown before you know it. The laundry, dishes, etc.. will be there tomorrow. Play, read, sing, hug, kiss, dance and laugh often with your children. You will not regret it. I did this. I can't say that it was every time, but it was close to it. And I don't regret a single moment of it. Even now I try and do this. I snuggled on my big comfy chair yesterday afternoon and as my 10 year old layed his head on my shoulder, I read to him. I guess I am feeling sentimental this evening. I love being a mom (and a wife) more than anything on this earth. I believe that that is why I was put on this earth. Hands down. God saw me fit to raise these two beautiful, gifted and challenging children. That humbles me. I know that my time with them on this earth is short lived. Call me old fashioned but I could not be any other way.